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China's uncertain future

Based on his experience as a scholar and diplomat stationed in China, Jean-Luc Domenach consults a wealth of archival and recent materials to examine China's contemporary and future place in the world. A sympathetic yet critical observer, Domenach brings his intimate knowledge of the country to bear on a range of critical issues, such as the growth (or deterioration) of China's economy, the government's ever-delayed democratization, the potential outcomes of a national political crisis, and the possible escalation of a revamped authoritarianism. Domenach ultimately reads China's current progress as a set of easy accomplishments presaging a more difficult era of development to come. His finely nuanced analysis captures the difficult decisions now confronting China's elite, who are under tremendous pressure to support an economy based on innovation and consumption, establish a political system based on law and popular participation, rethink their national identity and spatial organization, and define a more positive approach to the world's problems. These leaders are also besieged by corruption among their ranks, an increasingly restless urban population, and a sharp decline in the country's demographic growth. Domenach uniquely taps into these anxieties and the attempt to alleviate them, revealing a China much less confident and secure than many would believe.再讀一些...

Introduction: the new "Chinese moment" --
Book I. Measure for Measure --
The Regime's New Foundations --
In a New World --
The Magnitude and Weaknesses of Growth --
Book II. The Acid Test --
Explanation --
The Acceleration of History --
Book III. The Great Riddles of the Future --
Can China Be Governed --
One People --
Will China Finally Discover the World? --
What Does China Want? --
China's Great Challenge --
Afterword: China moves toward a consumer economy.

其他題名：

Chine m'inquiète.

責任：

Jean-Luc Domenach ; translated by George Holoch.

摘要：

Originally published in French under title: La Chine m'inquiaete. Paris: Perrin, c2008.再讀一些...

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Now that the world's most populous country has ceased to be an abstraction... French books are suddenly among the most down-to-earth. The latest is Jean-Luc Domenach's excellent La Chine m'inquiete, written after his stay in the country from 2002 to 2007. Through a hailstorm of statistics, an outline of contemporary China appears... Domenach has a sharp nose for Chinese paradoxes. Times Literary Supplement This is the best general introduction to contemporary China I have read. Written for the layman in a lively, engaging style, China's Uncertain Future is grounded in solid scholarship and benefits from the perceptive eye of one of Europe's leading China experts. -- David A. Palmer, author of Qigong Fever: Body, Science, and Utopia in China Informed, accessible, engaging... highly recommended. Choice Domenach's in-depth exploration of the complex issues facing China makes this a welcome addition to the literature. Asian Studies Review再讀一些...